The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of … activities and R&D in a local SME oriented system in Northern Italy. We first introduce a methodological framework to empirically …

"This book analyses the determining factors behind productivity and innovation amongst Small and Medium Enterprises … productivity and aiding economic growth. This book investigates the factors determining productivity amongst SMEs across the … primary data collected from a major international Delphi survey, and interviews with two hundred and fifteen SME owners and …

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … product, process, marketing, and organizational innovations should vary with firm size and competition. They then use a new … innovations the most common. As predicted by the model, firm size has a stronger positive effect, and competition a stronger …

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … product, process, marketing and organizational innovations should vary with firm size and competition. We then use a new large … predicted by our model, firm size is found to have a stronger positive effect, and competition a stronger negative effect, on …

Young firms are integral to productivity enhancing resources reallocation. However, they need to be more productive …, the productivity of those that survive makes a quantum leap in one year and starts to converge to that of the mature firms …. Those entrepreneurs that grow substantially by age three, termed as transformative, have a major productivity advantage …